We could conclude that ARM has a great interest in AMD and is trying to convince it to acquire a processor license from ARM. AMD representative John Taylor denies this and says the company will continue to focus on Fusion APUs, like Zacate and the coming Llano.
AMD has no current plans to acquire a license form ARM but sticks to the previous focus, Fusion APUs, and to be a Fusion APU there has to be x86 cores inside according to AMD. This development was expected, but on the other hand ARM and AMD are already working together and will cotninue doing so since both companies have joint ends in sight.
ARM, like AMD, has a vision that more and more software will run off the GPU instead of the CPU, which is the situation today. The knight in shining armor has been OpenCL that in theory can combine a processor architecture and a graphics architecture no matter the brand or instruction codes present to perform various tasks. ARM is therefore invited to AMD Fusion Developer Summit 2011 to talk to software developers.
But when it comes to a closer bond between ARM and AMD it looks like AMD is completely focused on making its APUs the primary choice for consumers. With the current strategy the only segment it is missing out on is the smartphone market.
Source: PCWorld
Relaterad nyhet:
